Should gender determine our Olympic flag bearer?

There have been calls for a woman to carry the flag in the London 2012 opening ceremony after a number of athletes have voiced their concern that this honour has traditionally been male skewed.

Lee Naylor, dual Olympian and former chair of the Australian Athletes’ Commission, joined us on Drive to share her thoughts on the issue;

“Quite frankly, you’re a part of a team, it’s great to be part of a team and I never think of gender

within the Australian track and field team, I was just a member of that team,” she told presenter Nicole Chvastek.

“I’d be really disappointed if we thought one of the criteria needed to be....we’d better put a girl in or she might get her nose out of joint.

That would be really disappointing for all females to think that it was tokenism and I really don’t think when you get to that elite level of sport and level of global sport that we want to think there is any level of tokenism.”